I leave you the best phrases about karate, a traditional martial art of the Ryūkyū islands belonging to Japan today, currently known as Okinawa prefecture.
You may also be interested in these quotes from Bruce Lee.
-A karate practitioner must possess two things: terrible hands and the heart of Buddha. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-Karate is like boiling water, if you don't heat it constantly, it will get cold. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate is a defensive art from start to finish. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-There is no first attack in karate. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate begins and ends with courtesy. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate Do is a study for life. -Kenwa Mabuni.
-Think of everyday life as karate training. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a self defense system. It is half physical exercise and half spiritual. -Mas Oyama.
-It is important that karate can be practiced by young and old, men and women alike. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Put Karate in your daily life, this is how you will see true beauty. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate is action, survival, life; indecision is paralysis, reaction, mortality. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-Karate training will make you strong and confident, but control will make you respected. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and the fight for justice and the common good. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-Karate is five percent sweat, the rest is all compromise. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-The ultimate goal of Karate does not lie in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate Do is definitely a martial path, and its identity lies in the Do or principles. Any martial art without the proper training of the mind turns into animal behavior. -Shoshin Nagamine.
-Karate aspires to strengthen character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; however, it does not guarantee it. -Yasuhiro Konishi.
-Those who are thinking about the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the full art. -Kenwa Mabuni.
-When we look at life we think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not just karate: it is life. Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate is a technique that allows you to defend yourself with bare hands and fists, without weapons. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-It takes at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate, to know how to cleanse your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to sport. -Jean Claude Van Damme.
-The most important thing that karate offers is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. Give one hundred percent in everything, in each activity. -Lyoto Machida.
-Karate Do can be referred to as the conflict within you or the marathon of life that can only be won through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts. -Shoshin Nagamine.
-Karate is a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. -Jean Claude Van Damme.
-Karate is for life, not for points. -David Walker.
-Search for perfection of character. Be faithful. Push yourself. Respect others. Refrain from violent behavior. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-I've done karate for a long time growing up, so I did kind of a pretty long karate scene. -Suki Waterhouse.
-One of the reasons I started acting was to do the Karate Kid again, but Jaden Smith beat me to it. -Justin Hires.
-I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for question and answer panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if not, who cares? -Jason David Frank.
-I was never a natural athlete, but I have paid my debts with sweat and concentration, and took the time to learn karate and become world champion. -Chuck Norris.
-When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's great for girls to have these kinds of skills. -Rebel Wilson.
-I've always liked the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and took up karate. -Kelly Hu.
-Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old. I'm dangerous. -Michele Bachmann.
-I gave up karate originally because it wasn't something I was passionate about. -Kristin Kreuk.
-It's like my karate teacher says: you are more alive when you feel pain than when you are so careful that you don't feel anything. -Annabel Monaghan.
-A true martial artist celebrates change. It is a catalyst, a cause, a force of nature. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-Karate turned my whole body into a weapon. -Don Knotts.
-Use karate, judo, aikido or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesing! -Bruce Lee.
-Students of any art, including Karate Do, must never forget the cultivation of the mind and body. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate is many things, but above all it is about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, the rhythm of life, progress… -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-The purpose of Karate is to get you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in real combat and in life. -Soke Behzad Ahmadi.
-Karate is not about beating others. It consists of winning over oneself. Ultimately, the most difficult opponents we face reside within: our obsessions, our insecurities, our prejudices. Get over them and you've really won. -David Walker.
-Karate is a form of martial art in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. -Dave Barry.
-Once a kata has been learned, it must be practiced several times until it can be applied in an emergency, because knowledge of the single sequence of a kata in karate is useless. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-You can train for a long time, but if you just move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not much different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of art; you will have failed to understand the quintessence of Karate Do. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Karate Do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, which allows us to face the world honestly, while externally we develop resistance to the point that one can even overcome the ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-True karate is this: that in everyday life the mind and body are trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical moments they are fully dedicated to the cause of justice. -Gichin Funakoshi.
-Many Karate masters teach a diluted style, no hip action, and no drilling depth, so it's easy to tell that these masters have no depth in their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, he should be able to show you his knowledge. -Higa Yuchoku.
-The best fighter is not a boxer, a karateka or a judoka. He is someone who can adapt to any style. He kicks too well to be a boxer, knocks down too well to be a karateka, and hits too well to be a judoka. -Bruce Lee.
-Who has suffered long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn a punch or a kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and take it to the end. Such a person can truly say that he has learned karate. -Gichin Funakoshi.